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Issue 129 March 2010

State of the Art

Friends and Foes

The one where Jan Verwoert writes about the 1990s, ‘New Innocence’, popular TV shows and the ethics of profanity by Jan Verwoert

View from the Bridge

Art Space

Have crowded museums and galleries put an end to uninterrupted contemplation? by Robert Storr

Art History

New Canons

The re-writing of art history in South Africa by Sean O’Toole

Pretty, Pretty Good

Long Exposure

The death and resurrection of photography in a digitized world by Jennifer Allen

Film

Life in Film: William E. JonesWith video

In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice

Travel

I Saw It

The rise of ‘dark tourism’ poses the question: are works of art as powerful as the sites they attempt to memorialize? by Ronald Jones

Art History

When Italy was Modern

The resurgence of interest in two pioneering Italian Modernists demonstrates the European avant-garde’s influence on a new generation of artists. by Luca Cerizza and Translated by Rosalind Furness

Books

Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre

René Girard (Michigan State University Press, 2009) by Erik Morse

Books

Andy Warhol

Arthur C. Danto (Yale University Press, 2009) by Richard Deming

Books

On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears

Stephen T. Asma (Oxford University Press, 2009) by Graham T. Beck

Music

LandingsWith video

Richard Skelton (Type, 2010) by Jace Clayton

Music

The Perfect PrescriptionWith video

Spacemen 3 (Fire Records, 1987/2009) by Dan Fox

Music

Black NoiseWith video

Pantha du Prince (Rough Trade, 2010) by Sam Thorne

Monograph

Through the Looking Glass

From tableaux vivants to Photoshop, the philosophical and optical enquiries of Pietro Roccasalva inevitably return to painting by Jonathan Griffin

Monograph

Waiting for the Future

Filmmakers, writers and theorists, The Otolith Group mine the past in order to understand what's yet to come by Nina Power

Interview

Speech Acts

Art historian Roger Cook discusses politics, performance and collaboration with artist Sharon Hayes

How it Appears

From performance, sculpture and painting to staging and directing an opera, Zhang Huan explores his interests in transience, Buddhism and the revitalization of traditional Chinese craftsmanship by Carol Yinghua Lu

Glenn Sorensen

Suspension, isolation, anticipation; frozen moments, ghostly flowers and floodlit nights by Jennifer Higgie

Focus

Alice Channer

Pleated fabrics, dresses and made-to-measure sculptures; cigarettes, tailoring and shop windows by Sam Thorne

Focus

Aurélien Froment

Memory, word games and puzzles; knots, conjuring tricks and cinema by Vivian Rehberg

Design

In Translation

A Dutch–Arabic typography project shows increasing compatibility between strikingly different languages and cultures by Eugenia Bell

Monograph

Mouth to Mouth

Working through abjection and attraction, the sculptures of the late Alina Szapocznikow engender the politics of emotion by Jan Verwoert

Questionnaire

Pae White

Pae White lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Her work is included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and she has been commissioned by Art on the Underground to create a new work for Gloucester Road tube station in London, which will be installed later this year.

ACT UP New York

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Harvard Art Museum, Boston, USA

By Ara H. Merjian

Chantal Akerman

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

By Vivian Rehberg

David Musgrave

greengrassi, London, UK

By Colin Perry

Besides, With, Against and Yet

The Kitchen, New York, USA

By Morgan Falconer

First Works

Architectural Association, London, UK

By Douglas Murphy

Julie Mehretu

Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

By Mark Prince

Dianna Molzan

Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, USA

By Andrew Berardini

Pieter Hugo

Cokkie Snoei, Amsterdam, Netherlands

By Douglas Heingartner

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Dia at the Hispanic Society of America, New York, USA

By Kristin M. Jones

Luke Fowler

The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

By Steven Cairns

Simon Denny

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany

By Catrin Lorch and Translated by Nicholas Grindell

Ruth Buchanan

The Showroom, London, UK

By Kathy Noble

Charles Burchfield

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

By Christopher Bedford

Simple Tales

Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India

By Heidi Fichtner

Yoshua Okón

Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico

By Jessica Berlanga Taylor

Daniel Richter

Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria

By Helen Chang

Bob Law

Thomas Dane Gallery and Karsten Schubert, London, UK

By Jonathan Griffin

Andrea Bowers

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA

By Graham T. Beck

Diango Hernández

Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany

By Catrin Lorch and Translated by Nicholas Grindell

Emmanuelle Léonard

Les Ateliers Jean Brillant, Montreal, Canada

By James D. Campbell

Evil to the Core

The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel

By Daniel Miller

Sancho Silva

Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

By Barbara Casavecchia

Isabel Nolan

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

By Isobel Harbison

Hyperborean Manners

Rob Tufnell at 1 Sutton Lane, London, UK

By Tom Morton

Stuart Sherman

80WSE Galleries, New York University / Participant Inc, New York, USA

By Steven Stern

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